Will there be any impact for OSD when upgrading ADK/MDT/R2?

We’re planning to upgrade our production ConfigMgr environment so that we can deploy Server 2012 and Windows 8.1. 
Currently we have ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 CU3 with MDT 2012 Update 1 and Windows ADK 8.0.  We have one Primary site and several secondaries. 
My understanding is that I need to do the following:
Upgrade Windows ADK 8.0 to 8.1 (uninstall 8.0, install 8.1 on our Primary site)
Upgrade MDT 2012 U1 to MDT 2013 on our Primary site
Install ConfigMgr 2012 R2 on our Primary site
My primary concern with this upgrade is that we are in the middle of our Windows XP to 7 migration. 
I am using an MDT 2012 U1 integrated deployment task sequence including the MDT 2012 toolkit, settings, USMT, and MDT database.
I am looking for feedback/links/resources/horror stories from others who have already been through this. 
I would like to minimize OS deployment downtime and plan accordingly for outages. 
Here are some concerns that I have:
Will uninstalling/reinstalling ADK have any effect on my existing production task sequence deployments? 
They use a USMT 5 package from ADK 8.0
Will upgrading MDT from 2012 U1 to 2013 have any effect on my existing deployment task sequence toolkit, settings, boot image packages etc…
Are there any “gotchas” with the R2 upgrade that will impact my existing deployment task sequences or any ConfigMgr 2012 components (app deployment, software updates etc...)? 
Any advice or links are appreciated.  Thanks in advance!
-FP

We were in a similar boat, XP->Win7 migration and needed to do our R2 upgrade. We postponed the upgrade until just a month or two ago, and for good reason.
We found alot of issues with OSD, but have been able to resolve them fairly quickly.
WinPE 4.0 boot images must be rebuilt as WinPE 5.0 (this was expected)
Our WinPE 5.0 boot image could not contact the MP because of our HTTPS MPs in the DMZ. Had to stand up internal HTTPS MPs so boot clients could download Task Sequence policy.
All task sequences had to be recreated (we integrate with MDT and 1E Nomad) (this was also expected)
We are still fighting through our issues, but our biggest one just arose last week. Our OS images need rebuilt. We only have three, but we are going through that process now.
Microsoft has not confirmed the upgrade caused the OS image issues, but they recommend we rebuild to be safe.
The symptoms we saw were IE errors, desktop profile errors, DISM errors loading drivers, and black screen/white cursor hangs during Windows Setup. All issues were intermittent, one machine would build fine, another wouldnt.
I dont know what we messed up or configured that caused all this trouble, but the R2 upgrade was the trigger that caused it all to break.
Personally, I would definitely wait until your Win7 migration is complete, unless you can risk the possibility of having to rebuild everything if things go awry.
Daniel Ratliff | http://www.PotentEngineer.com

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